Choreography Commission: Call for Entries

DIGITAL DANCE ARCHIVES CHOREOGRAPHY COMMISSION: CALL FOR ENTRIES

The Digital Dance Archives (DDA) project is a collaboration between the University of Surrey and Coventry University. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the project aims to produce a visually exciting platform to host online dance archives in order to promote and encourage dialogue and exchange between dance artists, researchers, teachers, students and dance audiences.

As part of the project development, the researchers at Coventry have been talking to dance artists about their experiences of using and working with digital dance archives. The project will look to extend this work by giving dance artists an opportunity to work in the studio with the DDA development site, to develop a choreographed response to the content and provide feedback about the experience. For this reason dance artists are invited to apply for an opportunity to make a short dance work in direct response to the archive collections to be hosted on the DDA platform, for sharing at a workshop event in Coventry in March.

CHOREOGRAPHY REQUIREMENTS

• There will be one commission to be directly informed by the contents of the DDA collections (see www.dance-archives.ac.uk for more on the collections) but is open to interpretation by the choreographer/s; the final form of the presentation is also open to interpretation, within the resources available.
• There is a fixed fee available – solo artists or groups can apply.
• The choreographic process must be made available in some tangible form, in effect become an ‘archival document’ in its own right, for inclusion in the DDA as a virtual 'scrapbook’ (thereby making use of the DDA Scrapbook tool)
• The commissioned work will be performed to an invited audience of artists, researchers, teachers and students as part of a wider workshop event at Coventry University on Wednesday 23 March, 2011

STIPEND & SUPPORT

• The chosen project will receive a £600 stipend plus a £20 per diem (max 7 days) – other materials/costume to be funded from the fixed fee
• Studio space will be made available in Coventry for up to six days, if required, 15th – 22nd March (not 17th or 21st)
• Videographer (for documentation) to be available for ½ day – other video/photo/text documentation is the responsibility of the choreographer/s
• Limited technical support will be provided, to be negotiated as and when required
  

SUBMISSIONS

• Choreographers must submit a DVD, or a link to an online version, containing no more than two works made in the last three years. Maximum length of DVD is 15 minutes (submitted DVDs will not be returned)
• Choreographers must submit a written outline describing the approach to be taken and their area(s) of interest (MAX 300-500 words); include a CV/resume with postal address, email address, and phone number(s)
• Electronic submissions are acceptable
• Students in full-time education are excluded; however, the project partners welcome applications from postgraduates who can provide evidence of a body of work in the past three years

DEADLINES

All submissions must be received by Friday, 11 February, 2011
Choreographers will be notified by Monday 21 February, 2011

QUESTIONS
Email d.bennett@coventry.ac.uk or call 024 7615 8356

SUBMIT TO:
David Bennett, Research Assistant
Institute for Creative Enterprise (ICE), Technology Park, Puma Way, COVENTRY CV1 2TT